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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix kswapd livelock on single core, no preempt kernel
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:20:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111214122041.GF3487@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGTjWtDvmLnNqUoddUCmLVSDN0HcOjtsuFbAs+MFy24JFX-P3g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:36:43PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
> FYI, this was seen with a 2.6.39-based kernel with no-numa, no-memcg
> and swap-enabled.
> 

If this is 2.6.39, can you try applying the commit
[f06590bd: mm: vmscan: correctly check if reclaimer should schedule during shrink_slab]

There have been a few fixes around kswapd hogging the CPU since 2.6.39.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com>, Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix kswapd livelock on single core, no preempt kernel
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:20:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111214122041.GF3487@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGTjWtDvmLnNqUoddUCmLVSDN0HcOjtsuFbAs+MFy24JFX-P3g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 08:36:43PM -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
> FYI, this was seen with a 2.6.39-based kernel with no-numa, no-memcg
> and swap-enabled.
> 

If this is 2.6.39, can you try applying the commit
[f06590bd: mm: vmscan: correctly check if reclaimer should schedule during shrink_slab]

There have been a few fixes around kswapd hogging the CPU since 2.6.39.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-14 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-13 17:44 [PATCH] mm: Fix kswapd livelock on single core, no preempt kernel Mike Waychison
2011-12-13 17:44 ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14  2:24 ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-14  2:24   ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-14  4:36   ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14  4:36     ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14  4:45     ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14  4:45       ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-15  1:06       ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-15  1:06         ` Shaohua Li
2011-12-14 12:20     ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2011-12-14 12:20       ` Mel Gorman
2011-12-14 15:37       ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 15:37         ` Mike Waychison
2011-12-14 10:51 ` James Bottomley
2011-12-14 10:51   ` James Bottomley

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